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John McCracken
Blue Column1967

Not on view
Black and white photograph of a tall, smooth rectangular monolith sculpture on a square platform in a modernist concrete plaza, with a two-story building featuring repeating vertical concrete fins in the background

John McCracken, Blue Column, 1967, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Gift of Friends of Leonard B. Hirsch, Jr., through the Contemporary Art Council, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
John McCracken
Title
Blue Column
Place Made
United States
Date Made
1967
Medium
Polyester resin and fiberglass over plywood
Dimensions
180 x 27 x 20 in. (457.2 x 68.58 x 50.8 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Friends of Leonard B. Hirsch, Jr., through the Contemporary Art Council
Accession Number
M.67.10
Classification
Sculpture
Collecting Area
Modern Art
Selected Bibliography
  • Tuchman, Maurice, ed. American Sculpture of the Sixties. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1967.
  • Tuchman, Maurice. Ten Years of Contemporary Art Council Acquisitions: Inaugurating The New Contemporary Art Galleries. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1973.
  • John McCracken: Works from 1963-2011. New York: David Zwirner, 2014.
Copyright
© John McCracken Estate